Musk solar city will be extraordinary contribution to energy

A little introduction

SolarCity is an American supplier of energy services, headquartered in San Mateo, California.Among its primary services, the company designs, finances, and installs solar power systems. The company has over 13,000 employees.

SolarCity has grown to meet the rapidly growing installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the United States. The overall U.S. market has grown from 440 megawatts (MW) of solar panels installed in 2009 to 6,200 MW installed in 2014. SolarCity has diversified in 2014 and 2015, with the aim of lowering costs and boosting sales. Paramount Solar was purchased for $120 million in 2013.

SolarCity is one of the founding members of The Alliance for Solar Choice, or TASC, which is a rooftop photovoltaic power station solar advocacy organization.

What it will do?

SolarCity will create the power, Tesla Energy will store it – and the SolarCity Utilities Services will convey it to you at night. Recently,Tesla stated

They would install more energy storage with Solarcity in 2016 than the USA installed in 2015.

These two press releases along with prior projects, like the massive52 MWHr TeslaEnergy project in Hawaii, show that SolarCity is ready to move far beyond residential solar power kits. The massive size of these energy storage projects shows how serious Elon Musk is about batteries, and taking the fight to the fossil fuel companies.

From the Utility & Grid Services press release is evidence of how SolarCity plans to deliver sunlight at night:

About two weeks ago the Powerpacks went live on Tesla’s website. This system, at 6MWh, would be larger than the website can handle, and – of course – any system designed directly for a power company would need a direct relationship and heavy customization to work within their hardware. This is further evidence of SolarCity, TeslaEnergy and the Utilities working very closely together.

Already, SolarCity does microgrids. When we combine utility scale batteries, with Tesla moving up the goal of 500,000 cars a year to 2018 and learning that the Freemont factory can produce 1,000,000 cars a year – we see why the Gigafactory is being expanded 40% from its original size.